an HTML installation
- an HTML installation is a form of a 'netart', or rather: 'web-art', sort of a 'web art installation' ...where 'web' is not just the means to show something, not just the "location" where that something appears but also it's the very 'thing' that both inspires the installation to take place and makes it possible too - practically if there was no web it would not only be impossible for that "web-art" thing to take place - but also nobody would notice its absence ... :)
- since HTML is web-based, we use it on the web and we humans have created it in order to publish web content we consider the URL as a basic part of an html 'installation' ...
like a nail in the wall marks out the position of the painting, or like the tv on a tv stand locates the place for the image to come so does locate and fix the URL the HTML page in space
- with a HTML installation physically you don't create anything ... you just make connection between things .. you just insert links .. you just embed media ... etc.
- an HTML installation is just a piece of html code like this one
an HTML installation is by default a 'ready-made', a re-publication as it shows things that already exist, that are already available on the web ...
in addition HTML installation is special because it can visualize (show) contemporary works of art in such a direct way that it would probably not qualify as proper in a gallery ...
it is one of the essentials about an HTML installation that it should be able to refer to entities of reality without bothering with copyrights, laws, prohibitions and whatsoever ...
cause whatever is around us it's part of our reality and as such we need to be able to, we need to have the right to think about it - which involves taking pictures and recordings
- by linking and embedding content an HTML installation reclaims the original highest level of intellectual freedom of being able to express thoughts and share experieences, as well as to generate new ones on the fly, that we enjoy when using our verbal languages, which allow us for embedding "images" quickly, simply and NATURALLY...
- so far we would create our pictures of the surrounding reality by text (literature, poetry, holy books) and by images (paintings, photographs, film and video recordings), today however this "extends with" html ... and web by which two we're able to creatively draw ideas, thoughts about reality and to share them with others ... an HTML installation is a new kind of picture of and about reality
- an HTML installation can be considered an image, yes ... no doubt since whatever we see we'll see it on a monitor and the surface of a monitor (when turned on) is an image in itself ....
- note:
nevertheless, any page presented on the web is an HTML installation ... however we should only consider one as that when there's an explicit reference to its being intended to be that ...
that is, if it's written, spoken or expressed in any way, like here, that "this is an HTML installation" :)))